The filmmaker Jürgen Heiter and the interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis open up a living archive - an interplay of film, installation, painting and objects.
Filmmaker Jürgen Heiter and interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis open up a living archive - an interplay of film, installation, painting and objects.
What is film, what is cinema? This is the question posed by the exhibition o. T. (Through the Eyes of Julia), a question that already moved André Bazin in his writings of the 1950s.
Film is art of and from the present and the future. It is different from all other arts. It is most likely to touch music in its now, because as a temporal art it never stops moving. It is a motion picture, spatiotemporal, committed to expressing processes in time and space. Film is thus perception, understanding, reason, spirit in motion - the future of itself.
Film is a conclusion and always asks for the next moment. The disappointment that a movie ends, and the strangeness that strikes you when you leave the cinema - as if reality itself were like film - arise from the absence of this next moment. Because real life does not know it in this form. It eludes the experience of people consciously - i.e. freely - making their story.
This exhibition focuses on the work of award-winning filmmaker Jürgen Heiter, who combines film, visual art and literature in his work. O. T. (Through the Eyes of Julia) presents itself as a living archive and is created in collaboration with and also with works by the interdisciplinary artist and curator Cony Theis, supplemented by an open index of Jürgen Heiter's films by Werner Fleischer. An edition by Jürgen Heiter will be published to accompany the exhibition.
